Wednesday assorted links

1. “This Article presents the first empirical examination of giving to § 501(c)(4) organizations, which have recently become central players in U.S. politics. Although donations to a 501(c)(4) are not legally deductible, the elasticity of c(4) giving to the top-bracket tax-price of charitable giving is – 1.24, very close to the elasticity for charities.” Link here. And there is no tax break for private jets, setting the record straight.
2. Ranking generals using sabermetrics, Napoleon is #1.
3. My podcast with the excellent Jocelyn Glei on self-transformation and risk.
4. Does the estate tax affect the marginal investor?
5. Eliminating the filibuster wouldn’t help much with gridlock.
6. Animal mutualism and personality (NYT).
7. ““The pending transactions on the Ethereum blockchain have spiked in the last 24 hours, mostly from CryptoKitties traffic,” CoinDesk director of research Nolan Bauerle said in an e-mail.
In the game, players buy cartoon kittens and then breed them with other cats. More than 22,000 cats have been sold so far for a total of US$3 million, according to Crypto Kitty Sales.
One of the cats went for US$117,712, although average sales price hovers about US$109, according to the sales tracker.” Link here.
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Richard Jacobs here.
In October 2016, I started a podcast called “Future Tech Podcast” in which I interview founders and CEOs in the stem cell, 3-D printing, blockchain/cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, brain-computer interface, nanotech and other up-and-coming industries.

1. Growth Economics blog reviews Hive Mind.
2. A private sector perspective on QE.
3. History of The Monkey Cage; note I said many very positive things about political science blogs, and The Monkey Cage in particular, which did not make the final cut of the article.